A wireless passive probe solves problems such as the measurement accuracy of the field strength detecting device in the prior art is affected by the communication device and the system structure is complicated, which includes a probe for collecting data in the field to be measured; wherein the wireless passive probe further comprises: a wireless transmission module, an antenna module, sensors, and a microprocessor. The wireless passive probe of the present invention transmits position temperature, field strength, moisture, air pressure probe serial numbers and the coordinate signals of the probe in real time through the wireless transmission module, and provides the power supply to the communication module through detecting or receiving microwave signals through the antenna, thereby avoiding inaccurate wireless measurement of the probe field caused by the field to be tested which is not tightly sealed and the cable.

Patent
   11150286
Priority
Jan 19 2019
Filed
Nov 30 2019
Issued
Oct 19 2021
Expiry
Apr 21 2040
Extension
143 days
Assg.orig
Entity
Micro
0
40
window open
1. A wireless passive probe placed in a field to be measured, comprising: a probe for collecting data in the field to be measured; wherein the wireless passive probe further comprises: a wireless transmission module, an antenna module, sensors, and a microprocessor;
wherein the wireless transmission module, the antenna module, and the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor;
wherein the antenna module comprises a receiving antenna which collects radio frequency microwave signals; a frequency of the receiving antenna is different from a frequency of the field to be measured, and is not a harmonic of the frequency of the field to be measured.
2. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 1, wherein the wireless transmission module comprises a power supply unit, and a field patch antenna unit for receiving packaged data, probe serial numbers, and coordinate signals; wherein the power supply unit is connected to the receiving antenna.
3. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 2, wherein the receiving antenna is a monopole antenna connected to a detection module.
4. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 2, wherein the receiving antenna is connected to a rectifier and the power supply unit.
5. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 1, wherein the antenna module comprises a transmitting antenna connected to the wireless transmission module, wherein the transmitting antenna is disposed on a container of the field to be measured through a cut-off hole.
6. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 2, wherein the antenna module comprises a transmitting antenna connected to the wireless transmission module, wherein the transmitting antenna is disposed on a container of the field to be measured through a cut-off hole.
7. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 3, wherein the antenna module comprises a transmitting antenna connected to the wireless transmission module, wherein the transmitting antenna is disposed on a container of the field to be measured through a cut-off hole.
8. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 4, wherein the antenna module comprises a transmitting antenna connected to the wireless transmission module, wherein the transmitting antenna is disposed on a container of the field to be measured through a cut-off hole.
9. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 5, wherein the sensors comprise a monopole antenna sensing a field strength to be measured, a capacitive moisture sensor, a barometric sensor chip, and a temperature sensor; wherein the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor.
10. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 6, wherein the sensors comprise a monopole antenna sensing a field strength to be measured, a capacitive moisture sensor, a barometric sensor chip, and a temperature sensor; wherein the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor.
11. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 7, wherein the sensors comprise a monopole antenna sensing a field strength to be measured, a capacitive moisture sensor, a barometric sensor chip, and a temperature sensor; wherein the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor.
12. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 8, wherein the sensors comprise a monopole antenna sensing a field strength to be measured, a capacitive moisture sensor, a barometric sensor chip, and a temperature sensor; wherein the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor.
13. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 9, wherein the capacitive moisture sensor is a multi-vibrator formed by a 555 chip for detecting a capacitance.
14. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 10, wherein the capacitive moisture sensor is a multi-vibrator formed by a 555 chip for detecting a capacitance.
15. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 11, wherein the capacitive moisture sensor is a multi-vibrator formed by a 555 chip for detecting a capacitance.
16. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 12, wherein the capacitive moisture sensor is a multi-vibrator formed by a 555 chip for detecting a capacitance.
17. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 13, wherein the microprocessor is a single chip microcomputer.
18. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 14, wherein the microprocessor is a single chip microcomputer.
19. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 15, wherein the microprocessor is a single chip microcomputer.
20. The wireless passive probe, as recited in claim 16, wherein the microprocessor is a single chip microcomputer.

The present invention claims priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(a-d) to CN 201910050490.9, filed Jan. 19, 2019.

The present invention relates to microwave field measurement, and more particularly to a wireless passive probe.

In microwave energy industrial applications, whether uniform heating or not can directly affect the processing performance of the material being heated. The uniformity of heating depends, on the one hand, on the physical and chemical properties of the material's dielectric properties, and on the other hand, on the electric field distribution in the heating chamber.

Conventionally, the uniformity of heating is mostly characterized by the distribution of the temperature field of the heated material. There is still no literature to analyze the uniformity of the heating chamber from the direct detection of the electromagnetic field distribution in the cavity. In order to detect the electric field distribution in a specific cavity, a special field strength probe is needed to detect the relative strength of the electric field. The probes that accurately measure field strength on the market are expensive (6-10 W) and have a small dynamic range (<1000V/m), which is not suitable for the detection of field strength uniformity in high-power heating chambers.

Chinese patent application CN 201410829902.6 disclosed a fiber-optic field-strength sensor which reduces the size of the sensor probe to improve the detection accuracy. The field strength is measured and transmitted through the optical fiber. Chinese patent application CN 201410829956.2 disclosed an automatic calibration method for field strength distribution characteristics of electromagnetic reverberation chamber, which uses eight field strength probes to obtain the real-time measurement of the field intensity distribution in the electromagnetic reverberation chamber to achieve the calibration of the spatial field distribution characteristics, but the optical fiber will affect the accuracy of the field strength measurement, and will affect the tightness of the field to be tested.

Chinese patent application CN 201010178527.5 disclosed a wide-band signal transmission system based on wireless transmission in a high-potential environment. The sensor and wireless transmission system measure and transmit physical quantities such as voltage, current, electromagnetic field and temperature under high-potential field, and use a battery as energy supply to the wireless transmission system. However, there are problems such as battery exhaustion and influence of the transmission system signal on influence factors of the field signal.

An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless passive probe to solve problems such as the measurement accuracy of the field strength detecting device in the prior art is affected by the communication device and the system structure is complicated.

Accordingly, in order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a wireless passive probe placed in a field to be measured, comprising: a probe for collecting data in the field to be measured; wherein the wireless passive probe further comprises: a wireless transmission module, an antenna module, sensors, and a microprocessor;

wherein the wireless transmission module, the antenna module, and the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor;

wherein the antenna module comprises a receiving antenna which collects radio frequency microwave signals; a frequency of the receiving antenna is different from a frequency of the field to be measured, and is not a harmonic of the frequency of the field to be measured.

Preferably, the wireless transmission module comprises a power supply unit, and a field patch antenna unit for receiving packaged data, probe serial numbers, and coordinate signals; wherein the power supply unit is connected to the receiving antenna.

Preferably, the receiving antenna is a monopole antenna connected to a detection module.

Preferably, the receiving antenna is connected to a rectifier and the power supply unit.

Preferably, the antenna module comprises a transmitting antenna connected to the wireless transmission module, wherein the transmitting antenna is disposed on a container of the field to be measured through a cut-off hole.

Preferably, the sensors comprise a monopole antenna sensing a field strength to be measured, a capacitive moisture sensor, a barometric sensor chip, and a temperature sensor; wherein the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor.

Preferably, the capacitive moisture sensor is a multi-vibrator formed by a 555 chip for detecting a capacitance.

Preferably, the microprocessor is a single chip microcomputer.

The wireless passive probe of the present invention transmits position temperature, field strength, moisture, air pressure probe serial numbers and the coordinate signals of the probe in real time through the wireless transmission module, and provides the power supply to the communication module through detecting or receiving microwave signals through the antenna, thereby avoiding inaccurate wireless measurement of the probe field caused by the field to be tested which is not tightly sealed and the cable.

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description only refer to a certain embodiment of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without any inventive labor.

FIGURE is a system block diagram of the present invention.

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings of the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

Referring to FIGURE, the present invention provides a wireless passive probe placed in a field to be measured, comprising: a probe for collecting data in the field to be measured; wherein the wireless passive probe further comprises: a wireless transmission module, an antenna module, sensors, and a microprocessor; wherein the wireless transmission module, the antenna module, and the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor; wherein the antenna module comprises a receiving antenna which collects radio frequency microwave signals; a frequency of the receiving antenna is different from a frequency of the field to be measured, and is not a harmonic of the frequency of the field to be measured.

Preferably, the wireless transmission module comprises a power supply unit, and a field patch antenna unit for receiving packaged data, probe serial numbers, and coordinate signals; wherein the power supply unit is connected to the receiving antenna.

Preferably, the receiving antenna is a monopole antenna connected to a detection module. Preferably, the receiving antenna is connected to a rectifier and the power supply unit.

Preferably, the antenna module comprises a transmitting antenna connected to the wireless transmission module, wherein the transmitting antenna is disposed on a container of the field to be measured through a cut-off hole.

Preferably, the sensors comprise a monopole antenna sensing a field strength to be measured, a capacitive moisture sensor, a barometric sensor chip, and a temperature sensor; wherein the sensors are respectively connected to the microprocessor. Preferably, the capacitive moisture sensor is a multi-vibrator formed by a 555 chip for detecting a capacitance. The barometric sensor chip is MPX4105, which works at +5V voltage, and converts the measured voltage into output voltage and sends it to a single-chip analog-to-digital conversion circuit. A resistor R5 and a capacitor C7 form a typical decoupling filter circuit. Preferably, the microprocessor is a single chip microcomputer.

A plurality of probes is set through polyethylene tetrafluoro brackets, so as to obtain the real-time electric field distribution of the field to be measured.

Through a receiving antenna for collecting radio frequency microwave signals, the receiving antenna is connected to the power supply unit through a rectifier, so as to provide energy for the probe wireless transmission module.

Alternatively, the detecting device and the A/D conversion module process the signals. Meanwhile, the detection device is connected to a switch which can be switched between a 2.45 GHz single-pole four-throw switch or a 433 MHz single-pole single-throw switch to provide energy for the wireless transmission module.

The monopole antennas in the X/Y/Z axis directions receive the electric field signals in each direction at a certain position. The detecting device and the A/D conversion module process the signals. The single chip microcomputer calculates the vector electric field at the position.

The measured moisture is converted into a capacitance by a capacitive moisture sensor, and the detection capacitance is detected by a multi-vibrator composed of a 555 chip.

Through the barometric sensor chip MPX4105, the measured voltage is converted into an output voltage and sent to the single chip microcomputer for analog-to-digital conversion.

The collected temperature data is transmitted to the single chip microcomputer through the temperature sensor,

The single-chip microcomputer receives the electric field signal, the moisture signal, the barometric signal and the temperature signal of the sensors in various directions of the position, and wirelessly transmits the packaged temperature, the probe serial numbers and the coordinate signals through the wireless transmission module to obtain a real-time electric field at the location.

A plurality of probes is set through polyethylene tetrafluoro brackets, so as to obtain the real-time electric field distribution of the field to be measured.

The antenna module comprises a transmitting antenna connected to the wireless transmission module, wherein the transmitting antenna is disposed on a container of the field to be measured through a cut-off hole.

The wireless passive probe of the present invention transmits position temperature, field strength, moisture, air pressure probe serial numbers and the coordinate signals of the probe in real time through the wireless transmission module, and provides the power supply to the communication module through detecting or receiving microwave signals through the antenna, thereby avoiding inaccurate wireless measurement of the probe field caused by the field to be tested which is not tightly sealed and the cable.

Of course, those skilled in the art should be able to make various changes and modifications in accordance with the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, such changes and modifications are within the scope of protection of the claims.

Liu, Changjun, Yang, Yang, Chen, Xing, Zhu, Huacheng, Huang, Kama

Patent Priority Assignee Title
Patent Priority Assignee Title
10264528, Dec 16 2015 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha Portable terminal apparatus
10274527, Sep 08 2015 CPG Technologies, Inc. Field strength monitoring for optimal performance
10348272, Dec 09 2013 Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc. Adaptive self-tunable antenna system and method
6806650, Feb 14 2000 Tokyo Electron Limited Structure and the method for measuring the spectral content of an electric field as a function of position inside a plasma
7040139, Jun 10 2003 SMITHS DETECTION INC Sensor arrangement
7086593, Apr 30 2003 NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE, AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR Magnetic field response measurement acquisition system
7159774, Apr 30 2003 NATIONAL AERONAUTICES AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE Magnetic field response measurement acquisition system
7201035, Jun 10 2003 Smiths Detection Inc. Sensor arrangement
7387010, Jun 10 2003 Smiths Detection Inc. Sensor arrangement having sensor array provided on upper portion of a container
8400168, Oct 24 2003 Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc Pavement material microwave density measurement methods and apparatuses
8405405, Jan 21 2010 TSIRONIS, CHRISTOS Wideband I-V probe and method
8841921, Jul 12 2011 TSIRONIS, CHRISTOS Adjustable signal sampling sensor and method
8847609, Oct 22 2004 Troxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc. Pavement material microwave moisture-density measurement methods and apparatuses
8963560, Aug 15 2011 STEPPIR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS INC Antenna system for electromagnetic compatibility testing
9893715, Dec 09 2013 Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.; Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc Adaptive self-tunable antenna system and method
9921256, Sep 08 2015 CPG Technologies, LLC Field strength monitoring for optimal performance
9927477, Sep 09 2015 QUANTUM WAVE, LLC Object identification system and method
20030052664,
20050007239,
20050022581,
20060124740,
20060144123,
20070180892,
20110204906,
20130043885,
20140009170,
20150162897,
20160344094,
20170067951,
20170181087,
20170301994,
20180106845,
20180269857,
20200045782,
20200103449,
20200103450,
20200119437,
20200195233,
20210135348,
20210143681,
/
Executed onAssignorAssigneeConveyanceFrameReelDoc
Nov 30 2019SICHUAN UNIVERSITY(assignment on the face of the patent)
Date Maintenance Fee Events
Nov 30 2019BIG: Entity status set to Undiscounted (note the period is included in the code).
Dec 18 2019MICR: Entity status set to Micro.


Date Maintenance Schedule
Oct 19 20244 years fee payment window open
Apr 19 20256 months grace period start (w surcharge)
Oct 19 2025patent expiry (for year 4)
Oct 19 20272 years to revive unintentionally abandoned end. (for year 4)
Oct 19 20288 years fee payment window open
Apr 19 20296 months grace period start (w surcharge)
Oct 19 2029patent expiry (for year 8)
Oct 19 20312 years to revive unintentionally abandoned end. (for year 8)
Oct 19 203212 years fee payment window open
Apr 19 20336 months grace period start (w surcharge)
Oct 19 2033patent expiry (for year 12)
Oct 19 20352 years to revive unintentionally abandoned end. (for year 12)